Two arrested in armed break-in, battery

DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Two men were arrested Sunday and charged with breaking into a home and using a gun to batter and threaten two people.

LAUREN SAGE REINLIE / Daily News

DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Two men were arrested Sunday and charged with breaking into a home and using a gun to batter and threaten two people, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office.

Shawn Bradley Holloway, 26 of Westville, and William Howard Curry, 25 of Ponce de Leon, were charged with breaking into the home at 2796 County Road 1883 early Sunday morning, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

Holloway shot into the home and then the men kicked down the door and pointed guns at the two people who were home, according to the Sheriff’s Office. One of them was the mother of Holloway’s child.

Holloway hit her in the face with a gun, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

Then the men fled.

Law officers found them in Holmes County about 11 a.m. and arrested them.

Holloway was charged with firing a missile into a dwelling, burglary with battery, armed burglary of an occupied dwelling and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Curry was charged with armed burglary of an occupied dwelling, burglary with assault or battery and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.